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Microsoft Project for dummies
Blow past the jargon and get hands-on, practical guidance on managing anyproject with Microsoft Project
Lean. Agile.Hybrid. It seems that project management these days comes with more confusingbuzzwords than ever.But you can make managing your next project simple and straightforward with help from Microsoft Project For Dummies.
This book unpacks Microsoft's bestselling project management platformand walks you through everyimportant feature, step-by-step, until you're ready to takeonvirtually any project, no matter the size. From getting set up for the first timetocreating tasks, managing resources andworking with time management features, you'lllearn everything you need to knowabout managing a project in Microsoft's iconic software.
You'll also find:
* Totally updatedguidancethat applies to both the desktop version andMicrosoft's new subscription-based Microsoft Project Online
* Helpful information on integrating Agile practices and techniques into your project
* \"Golden rules\" that keep a project on-track and on-time
* Ways to effectively manage your resources with Microsoft Project's built-in functionality
Managing a project, big or small, is no easy task. Luckily, Microsoft Project For Dummies can take a lot of the hassle out of your day-to-daylife. Learn how to take advantage of this powerful software today!
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Continuous delivery blueprint : how to implement efficient software change management processes at the enterprise level in the era of clouds, microservices, DevOps, and automation
\"Continuous Delivery Blueprint is a comprehensive guide to building a robust and efficient change management process at scale. It focuses on improving organizational structure, architecture, process, and technology to achieve a fast, high-quality delivery without sacrificing control and transparency. The book describes the executable policy approach to continuous delivery. It shows how new technology advancements in microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation can be used to redesign legacy processes and implement change management and security policies in a DevOps way\"--Provided by publisher.
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PowerCLI cookbook
PowerCLI allows faster administration by executing tasks on groups of objects in the virtual environment and is flexible enough to allow complex, scripted routines to solve complex problems. PowerCLI Cookbook illustrates the ease of performing repetitive tasks using native PowerCLI commands to speed up administration. This book teaches you how to create custom functions and modules to solve specific problems and deploy these solutions to operators. It covers all vSphere administration areas including host, cluster, and virtual machine management utilizing PowerCLI. Finally, this book will enable administrators to execute scripts that will open new possibilities for automation and also enable them to manage VM workloads effectively.
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Services and the Business Models of Product Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the Software Industry
Some product firms increasingly rely on service revenues as part of their business models. One possible explanation is that they turn to services to generate additional profits when their product industries mature and product revenues and profits decline. We explore this assumption by examining the role of services in the financial performance of firms in the prepackaged software products industry (Standard Industrial Classification code 7372) from 1990 to 2006. We find a convex, nonlinear relationship between a product firm's fraction of total sales coming from services and its overall operating margins. As expected, firms with a very high level of product sales are most profitable, and rising services are associated with declining profitability. We find, however, that additional services start to have a positive marginal effect on the firm's overall profits when services reach a majority of a product firm's sales. We show that traditional industry maturity arguments cannot fully explain our data. It is likely that changes in both strategy and the business environment lead product firms to place more emphasis on services.
This paper was accepted by Christoph Loch, R&D and product development.
Journal Article
Making sense of agile project management
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate balance of control and agility to fit a business environment as well as the risks and complexities of any individual project. The book will also provide business managers and leaders an understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for their business.
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Entry Strategies Under Competing Standards: Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry
The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS) field. The notion of the OS business model is discussed in the light of a substantial body of theoretical literature concerning strategic management and the economics of innovation, as well as specialized literature on OS. Empirical evidence based on a survey of 146 Italian software firms shows that firms have adapted to an environment dominated by incumbent standards by combining the offering of proprietary and OS software under different licensing schemes, thus choosing a hybrid business model. The paper examines the determinants of the degree of openness toward OS and discusses the stability of hybrid models in the evolution of the industry.
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